Top 3 best LPs in your opinion/collection?

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Joey_V
Joey_V Posts: 8,521
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Simple question - looking for ideas or just to expand my options.

Top 3 best sounding LPs of your collection - in your opinion?

Just list 3.
Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,373
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    Sticking more or less to one genre...but sort of predictable.

    Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
    Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
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  • tratliff
    tratliff Posts: 1,663
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    Donald Fagen - The Nightfly - MOFI One-Step
    Alan Parsons - iRobot - MOFI UHQR
    Blood, Sweat and Tears - MOFI One-Step

    I also have a number of Analogue Productions, Impex and Craft recordings that are pretty close but the 3 above not only sound best they are also some of my favorite artist/albums.
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,048
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    Best *sounding*. Obviously my{ears:space:equipment}

    Anner Bijlsma – 6 Suites A Violoncello Solo Senza Basso (RCA)
    Joe Pass - Virtuoso (Pablo)
    The Atomic Mr. Basie (Columbia)
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  • jdjohn
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    Steely Dan - Aja (CISCO pressing; I've had a couple other pressings that are not nearly as good)
    Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (Analog Productions pressing)
    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (MoFi 45RPM 2LP pressing)
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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  • dromunds
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    I’ll second that Brothers In Arms mentioned above. I’ve commented on it before. Pretty much any Knopfler vinyl is excellent but that MoFi 45 RPM excels fer shur.
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  • jdjohn
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    dromunds wrote: »
    I’ll second that Brothers In Arms mentioned above. I’ve commented on it before.
    Side 2 (or sides 3 & 4 with the 45RPM) is one of my all-time favorites.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,521
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    Top 3 Louis Armstrong records LPs?
    Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,352
    edited November 2022
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    Hard choices. Some mentioned already, so......

    Anne Bisson – Blue Mind, two LP's 45RPM pressing, # 527 of 11K.
    Jazz at the Pawnshop, Proprius Swedish pressing.
    Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love, Half-Speed, Stan Ricker, MFSL pressing # 912.

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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,640
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    The Highwaymen - Highwayman - Columbia Records
    A surprisingly great album. I am far from even a casual country fan but this record has been a go-to demo staple for me.
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    Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - Columbia
    So many good artists that joined in on this one.
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    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - Columbia
    I mean...come on...it's Miles ****** Davis.
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  • newbie308
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    ZLTFUL wrote: »
    The Highwaymen - Highwayman - Columbia Records
    A surprisingly great album. I am far from even a casual country fan but this record has been a go-to demo staple for me.
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    Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - Columbia
    So many good artists that joined in on this one.
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    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - Columbia
    I mean...come on...it's Miles ****** Davis.
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    One of my favorite albums!
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  • newbie308
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    Oops... the Miles Davis album, I mean.
    Sources: Technics SL1200MKII | SME3009 Tonearm | Monster Alpha 1 MC cartridge | Oppo UDP203 disk player | Nikko NT-790 analog tuner | Musical Fidelity Trivista 21 DAC | Preamp: Threshold SL-10 | Amplifier: Threshold Stasis 2 | Speakers: Snell Acoustics C/V | Kimber 12-TC bi wire speakers | Analysis plus Oval 1 preamp to amp | Wireworld Eclipse 7 DAC to Preamp | Wireworld eclipse digital IC Oppo to DAC | Audioquest Quartz tuner to preamp |
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,097
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    These are all great to very good (IMO of course), the last one of Oscar Peterson is not his best work but he's a great jazz pianist. My tastes in music are diverse. 60's-70's rock, 1960's US and British Psych., Blues, Jazz, Classical, Big Band, even some Country. The lower left Gershwin Living Stereo is great. Was going to add The Beatles, but they're a given for most. Wanted to add Joni Mitchell's "Blue" too. Too many other great one's to list.

    The Gershwin album was redone by Analogue Productions in 2014. On LP and SACD:
    https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/91655/Arthur_Fiedler-Gershwin_An_American_In_Paris__Rhapsody_In_Blue-Hybrid_3-Channel_Stereo_SACD
    So was Stardust and My Favorite Things:
    https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/125079/Willie_Nelson-Stardust-45_RPM_Vinyl_Record
    https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/168565/John_Coltrane-My_Favorite_Things-180_Gram_Vinyl_Record
    CSN awaiting new pressings and SACD from MOFI:
    https://mofi.com/products/crosby-stills-and-nash-crosby-stills-and-nash-ultradisc-one-step

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  • muncybob
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    Agree on "Blue". Always been one of my favorites for style and sound.
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • newbie308
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    Three that I really like that have not been mentioned yet:

    1. Jethro Tull, Songs from the wood
    2. Kaleo, A-B
    3. Foreigner, 4
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
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    Sound:

    SaraK - Waterfalls
    Diana Krall - (pick one..) but I'll go with The Girl In the Other Room
    Leinsdorf - Wagner Die Walküre on Sheffield

    Honorable Mentions

    Harry Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall
    DSOTM - one of the Anniversary Repressings
    Alison Krauss Union Station Live MFSL
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,585
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    TroyD wrote: »
    Alison Krauss Union Station Live MFSL
    Have it on SACD outstanding recording!

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  • Clipdat
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    Anything by Mazzy Star.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,521
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    Great recs
    Now I’ll add it to my list of things to check out
    Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound
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  • jdjohn
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    Joey, were you just looking for vinyl records here?
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    I'll second Troy's "The Girl in the Other Room" by Diana Krall. It's totally different and beyond any of her other albums.

    I'll join many of you on that MoFi "Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straits. When I was younger, I would use songs from this album (CD/Cassette) as motivation for the crew at the start line of my sailboat races.

    I will add "Stardust" by Willie Nelson as one of the most relaxing and beautiful albums I have heard. It's like hearing a sunset.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"


    Harry / Marietta GA
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